On 2012/02/17 22:01, Anton Maksimenkov wrote: > Hello. > > I want to ask you about vmmap changes introduced here and in your > presentation http://openbsd.org/papers/tdose_memalloc/presentation.html > > 1. http://openbsd.org/papers/tdose_memalloc/presentation.html#%2816%29 > "Browsers, java & mono breakage" > You pointed to some buggy software. If I understand correctly, you try > to "workaround" these bugs by using of "VM map address selectors". > If it is correct then I don't see reasons for this code and it's > "workarounds overhead" in production (web/db server, firewall, > router... ) where these buggy apps don't used at all. > Secondly vmmap becomes more complex and harder to understand/debug/develop. > Maybe these "workarounds" must be #ifdef'ed and enabled only by some > kernel option?
Surely that makes the workarounds *even more complex*, and by having different people running different code, harder to debug.
